Canada

Waymo is expanding to Toronto, its first move into Canada, starting with human-driven cars mapping city streets ahead of a planned fully autonomous ride-hailing launch in 2028. The company is partnering with Toronto-based Element Fleet…

Robots & Self-Driving · Google

PwC and Cohere are launching a global alliance, starting in Canada, to help organizations deploy AI that can run in private cloud, on-premises, or fully air-gapped environments. The aim is to keep sensitive data and infrastructure under…

AI Adoption

Mark Carney spent this week in Strasbourg addressing the European Parliament and sitting through Ursula von der Leyen's state-of-the-union speech, in which she offered to open the door to Canada becoming the EU's "first associate member" …

Europe & UK · AI Business & Money

Most of this debate has been about who should write AI's safety rules. Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Toronto-based Cohere — which sells AI systems into banks, telecom networks and defense ministries — has published a draft of what he…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched Digital Transformation Canada, a new federal organization tasked with modernizing how Ottawa builds, buys, and delivers government services—and named Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial…

Regulation & Policy · AI Adoption

Cohere is teaming up with the University of Waterloo to create a new certificate program in "AI Transformation and Change Management," run through the school's Future of Work Institute. The non-credit program, launching Fall 2026, will mix…

Education · AI Adoption

Cohere and the University of Toronto announced a multi-year partnership to deploy Cohere's agentic AI platform, North, as the orchestration layer for the university's enterprise-wide AI system. The deal positions North to handle workflows…

Education · AI Agents

Pembina Pipeline and partners Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Kineticor announced a positive final investment decision on the Greenlight Electricity Centre, a 932-megawatt natural-gas power plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Meta

An opinion piece circulating in tech circles argues that age verification laws spreading across US states, Europe, Australia—and now Canada—aren't primarily about protecting children, but are infrastructure for linking online speech to…

Privacy & Surveillance · Regulation & Policy

Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere—Canada's flagship AI company—publicly knocked the news that prediction markets are coming to Canada, posting on X: "This is bad for Canada. Broadening access to gambling isn't progress. Our tech industry…

Finance & Banking

Cohere is nearly tripling its London office space, moving to a 14,000 sq ft location that can house up to 100 employees. The Canadian AI company frames the expansion as a bet on European demand for "sovereign" AI—systems that keep data…

AI Business & Money · Europe & UK

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is presenting legislation Wednesday that it says will "make social media services and AI chatbots safer for children," with Identity Minister Marc Miller framing it bluntly: "Kids are dying."…

Regulation & Policy · Kids, Teens & Mental Health

Canada helped invent modern AI—researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton are among the field's founding figures—yet it has fallen badly behind at actually using the technology: just 12% of Canadian businesses had…

Regulation & Policy · AI Adoption

On the same day as the executive order, Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing—its initiative to "secure the world's most critical software"—adding roughly 150 organizations (on top of an initial ~50) across 15-plus countries, spanning…

Cybersecurity · Anthropic

A draft of Canada's long-delayed national AI strategy, obtained by CBC News and titled "AI for All," sets out a 2031 push to close the country's AI-adoption gap: free AI-literacy training for all Canadians (including one million…

Regulation & Policy · Education

GPTZero claims a 2025 Ernst & Young Canada cybersecurity report on loyalty program fraud contains fabricated citations. The AI detection company says its hallucination-checking tool found that most URLs in the report's reference section…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

Cohere and Mila, the Quebec AI research institute, announced a partnership to improve how AI models handle French-language cultural context, starting with Quebec French. The collaboration aims to move beyond standardized language…

AI Business & Money

Cohere signed preliminary agreements with two partners to expand its enterprise AI footprint. The first, with Spain's Indra Group, will deploy Cohere's models through Indra's IndraMind platform in Spanish and Canadian markets, emphasizing…

AI Business & Money · Europe & UK

Canada introduced Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would require telecom providers to build surveillance capabilities into their networks and establish new rules for law enforcement access to subscriber data. The bill improves on an…

Privacy & Surveillance · Regulation & Policy